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Adds a way to move a DPNS username from one identity to another. The user supplies only a seed phrase (or a private key), picks from the names they own, and names a destination identity. Everything is signed in the browser, same as the rest of the app.

Lives as a sub-flow under Manage Identity, which now opens on a chooser: Manage Keys (the existing flow, untouched) or Transfer a Username.

Flow

manage_choose_actionxfer_credentialsxfer_select_usernamexfer_reviewxfer_transferringxfer_complete

Credentials — two tabs:

  • Seed phrase: derives DIP-13 identity keys and finds the identity via identities.byPublicKeyHash, so the user types nothing else. Probes key indices 0–4 under identity index 0 (covers every identity this app creates), then the first key of identity indices 1–4 as a gap sweep, stopping at the first hit.
  • Private key: identity ID + WIF, or a dropped key-backup JSON.

Both converge on a WIF and the same key-eligibility check.

Selection — lists the names the identity owns rather than having the user type one, plus the destination identity ID.

Why this is a document transfer, not a DPNS call

There is no dpns.transfer in the SDK. A username transfer is a generic documents.transfer on the DPNS domain document that backs the name: resolve name → document, bump the revision, sign, broadcast.

Four protocol constraints from dashpay/platform shape the implementation:

  1. The SDK does not bump $revision. DocumentTransferTransitionV0::from_document passes document.revision() through verbatim, while drive-abci requires previous_revision + 1. The caller must bump it.
  2. Signing needs an AUTHENTICATION key at CRITICAL or HIGH. DPNS domain declares no signatureSecurityLevelRequirement, so it defaults to HIGH, which combined_security_level_requirement expands to {CRITICAL, HIGH}MASTER is rejected. That is why this flow needs its own credential screen instead of reusing the Manage Keys entry, which requires MASTER. It reuses the existing isPurposeAllowedForDpns / isSecurityLevelAllowedForDpns predicates.
  3. Transfers are rejected below protocol version 13 (a reject_data_trigger binding). The live version is read via epoch.current() and the UI is gated on it. An unreadable version does not block — the network gets the final say.
  4. Platform does not validate that the recipient exists. A mistyped destination would orphan the username permanently, so the recipient is verified to exist before anything is signed. This is the load-bearing guard in the feature.

records.identity is never set client-side — drive rewrites it on transfer at v13+.

Failure handling

The broadcast is deliberately not retried: a retry after a broadcast that actually landed fails the revision check and would report a false failure. Instead the domain document is read back afterwards to settle what really happened:

Broadcast Read-back Result
threw shows recipient success (only the wait failed)
threw shows old owner confirmed failure
threw unreadable failure marked unconfirmed — UI warns to check the explorer before retrying
ok shows recipient success
ok otherwise success, unverified

Discovery distinguishes "this seed owns nothing" from "the network is unreachable", so an outage is not reported as a bad seed phrase. The seed phrase and signing key are dropped from state on a successful transfer and on any mode switch.

Testing

  • 20 new unit tests covering mnemonic validation, DIP-13 derivation paths per network, key selection (MASTER rejection, HASH160 matching, disabled keys, network-prefix mismatch), and the version gate. Full suite: 105 passing.
  • New deterministic Playwright flow exercising bad seed → discovery → selection → malformed/self/valid recipient → confirmation gate → completion. Full suite: 6 passing.
  • tsc, production build, and the build-artifact check (which confirms mock-mode code is stripped from the bundle) all clean.

Not covered by mock mode and worth a live testnet pass before release: the revision bump, the version gate, and the recipient guard against a real network.

Review notes

Rebased onto main after #32. Two conflicts worth flagging:

  • ERR-1015 was claimed by both this branch and the withdraw mode; username transfer is now ERR-1016.
  • src/utils/errors.ts landed identically on main, so this branch now consumes it rather than adding it.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added username transfers to identity management.
    • Unlock identities with a seed phrase or private key.
    • Select a username, verify the destination identity, review details, and confirm the irreversible transfer.
    • Added progress, success, error, retry, and unconfirmed-result screens.
    • Added validation for credentials, identities, signing keys, and protocol compatibility.
    • Improved mobile layouts for transfer workflows.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Returning from identity entry now goes back to the action chooser.
    • Identity validation messages now handle varied error wording.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for validation and end-to-end username transfer scenarios.

Verified on live testnet

Run through the real UI against testnet (protocol version 13), not mock mode.

  • Source APScJRQFRz1RVrtauRLALMr2eizwGv9c8TNhJ7EZfwJf → destination 79KWAGD8C336Snx8u2C3f2U4XcyE1rdfhPE2qbocjkvg, name xfertest7pasta.dash.
  • Seed phrase alone found the identity, and the signing key chosen was claude/add-github-link-hJjXy #1 (HIGH) — correctly skipping the MASTER key at derivation index 0, which Platform would have rejected.
  • A well-formed but nonexistent recipient was refused before anything was signed.
  • Independently confirmed on-chain afterwards: ownerId = destination, $revision 1 → 2 (the bump this code has to do itself), $transferredAt set, records.identity rewritten to the destination, dpns.resolveName returns the destination, and the name moved out of the source's list into the destination's.
  • An earlier attempt failed on insufficient credits and reported that cleanly — not flagged unconfirmed, because the read-back succeeded and showed the old owner. That exercised the failure branch for real.

Reproduce with npm run test:e2e:live:transfer (opt-in; skipped by default, not in CI).

Two bugs the mock suite could not have caught

  1. The recipient field was unusable. It updated state on every keystroke, and this app re-renders the whole tree on any state change; combined with the network-status poller that only runs against a live network, the input was destroyed mid-edit. Verification now happens on blur/paste, and the Continue handler compares the live field against the value actually verified so an unblurred edit cannot inherit a previous recipient's verification.
  2. Identity IDs were only charset/length checked. "1" is Base58's zero digit, so 44 of them decode to 44 zero bytes and the SDK rejects them as malformed — reaching the network and surfacing a raw WasmSdkError. IDs are now decoded and required to be 32 bytes locally. The mock identity constants were themselves malformed by this measure and are now structurally valid.

PastaPastaPasta and others added 3 commits September 1, 2026 21:03
Adds a username transfer sub-flow under Manage mode. The user supplies a seed phrase (which auto-discovers their identity and signing key) or an identity ID plus a WIF, picks from the usernames they own, and names a destination identity.

There is no dpns.transfer in the SDK, so this is composed as a generic document transfer of the DPNS domain document: resolve the name to its document, bump the revision, and sign with an AUTHENTICATION key at CRITICAL or HIGH security level. MASTER keys are rejected by the protocol for document transitions, so the flow needs its own credential screen rather than reusing the MASTER-gated key management entry.

Three protocol constraints drive the design: the SDK does not bump the document revision but drive-abci requires stored+1; DPNS transfers are rejected below protocol version 13, so the network version is checked and the UI gated; and Platform does not validate that a transfer recipient exists, so a mistyped destination would orphan the username permanently. The recipient is therefore verified before anything is signed.

The transfer itself is deliberately not retried, since a retry after a broadcast that landed fails the revision check and would report a false failure. On error the domain document is re-read to determine the true outcome.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Review fixes: clear the seed phrase and signing key on any mode switch, not just on re-entering Manage, so a wallet seed cannot outlive the flow that asked for it; report an unconfirmed failure distinctly when the domain document cannot be read back after a throw, since a transfer that landed must not be blindly retried; and stop making the whole credential screen a key-file dropzone while the seed-phrase tab is showing.

Simplifications: identityExists now uses client.ts fetchIdentity instead of reimplementing it, validateIdentityId delegates to the shared predicate, the two unlock paths share their tail and mock branch, and the identity-ID + WIF path reuses selectTransferSigningKey (now generic over anything carrying a WIF) so both paths get the same ineligible-vs-unmatched messages. Drops the xferDiscovering flag, which was derivable from xferDiscoveryStatus and allowed a discovering-with-no-message state. New CSS folds into the existing dpns/manage rules rather than restating them.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The previous commit's message claimed this, but the edit did not apply. Both copies used the same regex, so there is no behaviour change — but a future change to the accepted format would otherwise have landed in only half the app.

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This change adds a username transfer flow to manage mode. It introduces transfer state, validation, signing-key discovery, platform transfer operations, UI screens, styles, mock data, and automated tests. The manage flow now starts with an action choice between key management and username transfer.

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Username transfer flow

Layer / File(s) Summary
State and step contracts
src/types.ts, src/ui/state.ts, src/ui/index.ts
Adds transfer steps, bridge state fields, result types, error mapping, state transitions, and exported setters for the username transfer flow.
Transfer utilities and platform operations
src/platform/username-transfer-utils.ts, src/platform/username-transfer.ts, src/platform/loaders.ts, src/platform/username-transfer-utils.test.ts
Adds credential and identity validation, protocol gating, key derivation and selection, identity discovery, username lookup, recipient checks, transfer execution, and utility tests.
Transfer screens and main flow
src/ui/components.ts, src/main.ts, index.html
Adds transfer screens, credential unlocking, recipient verification, confirmation, execution, retry handling, and transfer-specific styling.
Mocks and end-to-end coverage
src/e2e-mock-constants.ts, e2e/deterministic.spec.ts, e2e/live.transfer.spec.ts, package.json, src/main.ts
Adds deterministic mock credentials and usernames, deterministic transfer coverage, gated live testnet coverage, and a Playwright script.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to c9d17

The PR adds irreversible username ownership transfers, but recipient verification can become stale after an edit and allow transfer to an unintended identity unless it is bound to the verified recipient and rechecked before signing. The live test also exposes a recovery phrase in logs. Merge should wait for the recipient-validation fix and removal of sensitive logging.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant UI
  participant Main
  participant TransferUtils
  participant TransferModule
  User->>UI: Choose username transfer
  UI->>Main: Submit credentials
  Main->>TransferUtils: Validate credentials and select signing key
  Main->>TransferModule: Discover identity and load usernames
  TransferModule-->>Main: Identity and username data
  User->>UI: Select username and recipient
  Main->>TransferModule: Verify recipient
  User->>UI: Confirm transfer
  Main->>TransferModule: transferUsername
  TransferModule-->>Main: UsernameTransferOutcome
  Main->>UI: Render completion
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Found by a live testnet run of the flow, which the mock e2e could not catch.

The recipient input updated state on every keystroke, and this app re-renders the entire tree on any state change. Combined with the periodic network-status re-render that only exists against a live network, the field was torn out from under the user mid-edit — Playwright's fill retried against detached nodes until it timed out. Verification now happens on blur/paste like the DPNS and manage identity inputs, and the Continue handler compares the live field against the value that was actually verified so an unblurred edit can never inherit a previous recipient's verification.

Identity IDs are also now checked locally for decoding to 32 bytes. The charset-and-length test alone accepts strings that the SDK rejects as malformed -- "1" is Base58's zero digit, so 44 of them decode to 44 zero bytes -- which reached the network and surfaced as a raw WasmSdkError. The mock identity constants were themselves malformed by this measure and are now structurally valid, so mock runs exercise the same validation as a real one.

Adds an opt-in live testnet spec (npm run test:e2e:live:transfer) covering identity discovery from a seed, signing-key selection, the pre-broadcast recipient guard, and the transfer itself.

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24-42: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Keep shared transfer contracts in src/types.ts.

DerivedCandidateKey and SigningKeySelection are feature-level contracts. Move these interfaces to src/types.ts and import them here. This keeps shared transfer shapes in the project’s central type module.

As per coding guidelines, **/*.ts must use interfaces in types.ts for KeyPair, UTXO, BridgeState, and other core structures.

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Scan every key index for every identity index.

deriveCandidateKeys omits key indices 1-4 for identity indices 1-4. DIP-0013 derives each key from both indices, so a valid authentication key at (identityIndex: 1, keyIndex: 1) cannot be selected. Enumerate the required combinations and add a regression test for (1,1).

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KEY_INDEX_SCAN_DEPTH for every identityIndex in the configured identity gap
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In `@e2e/live.transfer.spec.ts`:
- Line 18: Update the live transfer suite gating around LIVE so provisioning
only occurs when all required transfer variables are present, not merely when
PW_LIVE_XFER=1. Apply the guard before faucet-funded identity setup, or require
the complete transfer inputs at suite scope while preserving the existing skip
behavior for incomplete configuration.
- Line 49: Remove the console.log statement that outputs the destination
mnemonic in the live transfer test, including the fallback text; do not log the
value of phrase or any recovery phrase when PW_LIVE_XFER=1.

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- Around line 24-42: Move the feature-level interfaces DerivedCandidateKey and
SigningKeySelection from username-transfer-utils.ts into the central types.ts
module, then import and reuse them in the transfer utilities. Preserve their
existing fields and typing, and remove the local declarations without changing
related transfer logic.
- Around line 152-188: Update deriveCandidateKeys to enumerate every keyIndex
from 0 through KEY_INDEX_SCAN_DEPTH for every identityIndex in the configured
identity gap range, including the (1,1) combination, while preserving the
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Addresses CodeRabbit review on #34. Enabling the suite with PW_LIVE_XFER=1 alone used to run the faucet-funded identity creation, so the documented command could spend testnet funds without exercising a transfer; each stage now opts in separately. The destination recovery phrase is also no longer written to runner logs (CWE-532) — read it off the completion screen by hand if a reusable destination is wanted.

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Thanks — triaged all three findings.

Fixed in 3b3b840:

  • Skip before provisioning — valid. Enabling the suite with PW_LIVE_XFER=1 alone ran the faucet-funded identity creation, so the documented npm run test:e2e:live:transfer could spend testnet funds without exercising a transfer. Each stage now opts in separately (PW_XFER_PROVISION, PW_XFER_TOPUP, and the three transfer variables).
  • Do not log the destination mnemonic — valid, agreed. Removed; runner logs are not a place for a recovery phrase even on testnet. The phrase can be read off the completion screen by hand if a reusable destination identity is wanted.

Already resolved (no change needed): Store the trimmed recipient ID. That input handler was removed in c9d1790 — it re-rendered the whole DOM on every keystroke, which made the field unusable against a live network. Verification now runs on blur/paste from value.trim(), and startXferRecipientCheck stores that trimmed value, so state.xferRecipientId is always normalized. Your bot marked this one addressed as well.


🤖 Posted autonomously by Claude on behalf of pasta.

Clearing the destination field without blurring left the previous verification in place, so Continue advanced to the confirmation screen using the earlier recipient. The ID was genuinely verified and the review screen showed it, so this was never unsafe — but a user who cleared the field to change or abort the transfer would not expect it to proceed. An empty field now counts as a change and is reported as missing.

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